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This is a guide on resources and scholarships for Catholic students. It covers a lot of interest to students who identify with the Catholic faith -- a directory of scholarships for Catholic students, advice on what to consider when thinking about attending a Catholic university, and ways for students to maintain or strengthen their practice of faith on campuses during a time of great change in their lives. You can read through the guide here:

Fr Corey wanted to share this video of a beautiful testimony of a native man about Bishop Baraga’s love of the native people. This was recorded in Marquette last weekend at the 150th Anniversary celebrations of Bishop Baraga’s death.

The Parish Mission will be held on Monday, February 26th at 6:00 pm at Sacred Heart. Please join Deacon Steve and Jackie Gretzinger with Fr Corey Litzer as we journey deeper into the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Father encourages everyone to take the two cards left at the entrances. One is The Prayer Process and the second one is to help with Reconciliation, Examination of Conscience.

“We
have no government armed in power capable of
contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our
constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate
for the government of any other.”

--John
Adams

“God
who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties ofa
nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the
gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that
His justice cannot sleep forever. “

-
Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Memorial

“In
my view, the Christian religion is the most important and
one of the first things in which all children, under
a free government ought to be instructed ... No truth is more evident to my
mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of
any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. “

-
Noah Webster, Preface Noah Webster Dictionary, 1828

"We
have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of
government; far from it. We have staked the future of
all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to
govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten
Commandments."

-
James Madison

"Intelligence,
patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken
this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our
present difficulties."

-Abraham
Lincoln, President, March 4, 1861, inaugural address

"The
fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The
fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get
from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. ‘This
is a Christian nation.’"

-
Harry S. Truman

"Without
God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition
of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic expression of Americanism.
Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will
continue to be."